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undertake to educate the people. For education promotes 

 peace by teaching men the realities of life and the 

 obligations which are involved in the very existence of 

 society ; it promotes intellectual development, not only 

 by training the individual intellect, but by sifting out 

 from the masses of ordinary or inferior capacities, those 

 who are competent to increase the general welfare by 

 occupying higher positions ; and, lastly, it promotes 

 morality and refinement, by teaching men to discipline 

 themselves, and by leading them to see that the highest, 

 as it is the only permanent, content is to be attained, 

 not by grovelling in the rank and steaming valleys 

 of sense, but by continual striving towards those high 

 peaks, where, resting in eternal calm, reason discerns the 

 undefined but bright ideal of the highest Good " a 

 cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night." 



